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I don't know - I haven't seen any of my movies after I finish them. I leave the editing room; I don't go back.

I see the world from a very specific perspective. It is how I grew up. It is what I am proud of, and I vocalize it. And for those who have not experienced my experience, it is odd, and it's...

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I went from off-off Broadway. I would direct plays in Baldwin Hills. Almost Tyler Perry-like, really trying to express myself in that and not really knowing how to, knowing acting in story, but not really knowing how to technically hold...

I don't work with fear, and I don't work with actors that are fearful.

To come into my world, I've got some M&Ms and some potato chips, and I'm asking you to move furniture. We're making a movie. We're making it like we're putting on a play.

I want to go to places that are unexpected of me because people really think they have me pegged.

I went back-to-back from 'Paperboy' to 'Butler,' literally with no break.

There are servers, and there are people that are served. There's something contradictory about that in a democracy, certainly.

I'm not going to be labeled a black filmmaker. I am not here to just tell black stories. I'm here to tell all kinds of stories, musicals and dramas.

I come from a family of domestics. I think most African-Americans of my age do. They were trusted by their bosses. I have met so many white people that spent more time with their nannies than they have with their...

I don't know what gives me more pleasure: watching my story unfold or going in and watching a room full of black people talking for me and writing words for black people.

I hate white people writing for black people; it's so offensive. So we go out and look specifically for African-American voices.

I have a partner, Danny Strong; he's an incredible writer and, really, my backbone. So when we don't see eye to eye, it's painful.

I have a very clear vision, and I come from film, where director is God, so if there's a clash, it's painful.

I believe strongly that characters are five-dimensional, and they're complicated, and life is complicated, and people are complicated.

I like to show the grey area in all my characters.

I think it's very important that we don't sound like militants. Often what we do is we give a comment, and because it comes across with passion, then we're 'angry black people.'

With TV, you're in people's houses every night. And you have so much time to tell stories. I don't know why I didn't do it before.

My partner, Danny Strong, came to me with this idea of telling a story about my life and merging that with music and the hip-hop world. He wrote 'The Butler' and originally wanted to do 'Empire' also as a movie.

As a film director and as film actors, you get used to a certain rhythm that's slow. But with TV, it's hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry. It's a different pace.

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